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John Belushi
John Adam Belushi (January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982) was an American actor and comedian. John was born in the U.S. to Adam Belushi, an Albanian immigrant who left his native village, Qytezë, in 1934 at the age of 15, and his wife Agnes. He grew up in Wheaton, Illinois, where he was a high school football player, outside of Chicago and attended the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and the College of DuPage near Chicago. Belushi's brother James Belushi is also a successful actor and comedian.
Belushi's first big break as a comedian occurred in 1971, when he joined The Second City comedy troupe in Chicago, Illinois. Thanks to his uncanny caricature of singer Joe Cocker's intense and jerky stage presence, he participated in National Lampoon's "Lemmings" stage show in 1972 (which also featured future Saturday Night Live performer Chevy Chase).
From 1973 to 1975 the National Lampoon aired the Radio Hour, a half-hour comedy program syndicated across the country on approximately 600 stations. When original director Michael O'Donoghue quit in 1974, Belushi took over the reins until the show was cancelled. Other players on the show included future SNL regulars Gilda Radner, Bill Murray, Brian Doyle-Murray, Richard Belzer and Chevy Chase. Belushi married Judy Jacklin, an associate producer of the Radio Hour. A number of comic bits first performed on the Radio Hour would be translated into SNL sketches in the show's early seasons.
Belushi achieved national fame with his work on Saturday Night Live, which he joined as one of the original cast members in 1975. Between seasons of the show, he made one of his best-known movies, Animal House. He left Saturday Night Live in 1979 to pursue a film career, and he appeared in a number of movies, including The Blues Brothers (with Dan Aykroyd). Both the Animal House and the Blues Brothers albums went to number 1, making Belushi the only performing artist to concurrently attain momentary greatness in the two disciplines.
He was also known to indulge in bouts of drinking and involvement with drugs which eventually cost him his life. Belushi was found dead on March 5, 1982, at the age of 33, in a hotel room at the Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. The cause of death was a speedball, a lethal injection of cocaine and heroin. His death was investigated by forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden, among others, and while there was some dispute in the findings it was eventually officially ruled a drug-related accident. There was some suspicion of foul play by his companion and drug dealer at the time, Cathy Smith, who was a former groupie for The Band.
John's life is detailed in the biography "Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi" (Published in 1985) by Bob Woodward which was adapted into a feature film. Many friends and relatives of Belushi including his wife, Dan Aykroyd and Jim Belushi boycotted the film.
John Belushi is interred in Abel's Hill Cemetery, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. His tombstone read "I may be gone, but rock n roll lives on."
His widow later remarried and is now Judy Belushi Pisano.
Filmography
- Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle (1975) (voice)
- Animal House (1978)
- The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash (1978)
- Goin' South (1978)
- Old Boyfriends (1979)
- 1941 (1979)
- The Blues Brothers (1980)
- Continental Divide (1981)
- Neighbors (1981)
Trivia
- In the toga party scene in the basement of the frat in Animal House, the uncredited coed dancing with Bluto (Belushi) is his wife.
- Belushi wanted Bluto to go on the road trip with Boon, Otter, Pinto and Flounder but director John Landis told him that his character was best used sparingly.
- According to the "Where Are They Now? - A Delta Alumni Update" mockumentary included on the Double Secret Probation Edition of Animal House, Sen. John Blutarsky and his lovely wife, the former Mandy Pepperidge, have ascended to the White House.
- According to writer/actor Tim Kazurinsky in the book Live From New York, Belushi was instrumental in getting fellow Second City alumni Kazurinsky onto Saturday Night Live. But during his run on the show, Kazurinsky became very stressed out by the show's demands. He later called Belushi and said that he needed a ride to the airport because he was quitting the show and moving back to Chicago. Belushi and his wife refused to drive him to the airport, at which Belushi told Kazurinsky that the show's atmosphere can get bad at times, but that he still had access to major broadcasting airwaves. Instead, Belushi took the performer to a psychiatrist whom he saw for a year, while staying with the show during his run.
- He was portrayed by actors Eric Siegel in Gilda Radner: It's Always Something, Tyler Labine in Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Mork & Mindy which also features his friendship with Robin Williams and Michael Chiklis in Wired. The last two films may not have portrayed the comic actor in the best light as they particularly highlight his drug use.
- Posters of Belushi as Bluto from Animal House in his signature "College" sweater (as well as replicas of the sweaters themselves) remain ubiquitous on college campuses as of 2005.
- Chris Farley, another overweight comedian who died in his early 30s, was an admirer of Belushi.
- The 1981 Halloween episode aired on October 31st with Donald Pleasence and musical guest FEAR. By personal favor/request from Fear fan John Belushi the band performed because Belushi promised them a spot after they failed to make the final cut (movie studio refusal) as musical composers in his movie 1941. The band proceeded to play offensive music and bussed in "dancers" (many were in well-known East Coast punk acts). The band used obscene language and the dancers destroyed the set with slam dancing on the stage. The end result was Fear were banned from playing and their actual performance was cut short; as they played "Let's Have a War" the audio and video cut to commerical.
- In an interview with the drummer from Fear Spit Stix, Stix explained Belushi hadn't been on SNL for years, but "for the show that we were on, he did make an appearance. In the beginning, he's at the urinal and he turns around to the camera, 'Live! From New York!' That was a favor he did for us because during rehearsal some of our crowd - bussed-in slamdancers - tripped over a cable or something, and the union people didn't want any dancers. So as a trade-off, he went up to Grant Tinker's office for us and said, 'I'll make an appearance on the show if the dancers stay.' John was such a generous guy." [http://markprindle.com/stix-i.htm]
- Belushi was good friends with fellow SNL player Dan Aykroyd, whom Belushi personally recruited for SNL. They met in a Chicago speak easy that Aykroyd frequented and, during their discussion over Aykroyd possibly joining SNL, he put on a blues record in the back ground. John and Dan immediately hit it off and became friends right on the spot and, additionally, the blues music Aykroyd had playing in the back ground sparked a fascination with blues music in Belushi, who, though a Chicago native himself, was primarily a fan of heavy metal. Dan educated John on the finer points of blues music, and this led to the creation of their popular Blues Brothers characters.
- John and his friend Dan Aykroyd were slated to present the first ever Visual Effects Award in 1982, but John died a few weeks prior to the event. Though devastated by John's death, Aykroyd presented the award alone, commenting on the stage "My partner would have loved to have been here to present this award, given that he was something of a visual effect himself."
- The role of Dr. Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters (1984) was originally written with John in mind. After he died, the part was rewritten for fellow Saturday Night Live player Bill Murray. John's friend Dan Aykroyd, who wrote the Ghostbusters screenplay, used to joke that the green ghost Slimer was "the ghost of John Belushi", given that he was played with a similar party animal personality.
- Beethoven
- Samurai
- 'Joliet' Jake Blues
- Joe Cocker
- Dino de Laurentiis
- Greek Restaurant Owner
- The Godfather
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Captain Kirk
Sources - Hill, Doug and Weingrad, Jeff, "Saturday Night - A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live", Beech Tree Books / William Morrow, New York, 1986, ISBN 0-688-05099-9.
The Best of the National Lampoon Radio Hour, liner notes by McConnachie, Brian and Simmons, Matty, Rhino Records, California, 1996.
Shales, Tom and Miller, James Andrew, "Live From New York - An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live", Little, Brown and Company, Boston, New York, London, 2002, ISBN 0-316-78146-0.
National Lampoon's Animal House - Double Secret Probation Edition DVD release, Universal Studios, California, 2003.
External links
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- [http://www.disinfotainmenttoday.com/emulsionalproblems/belushi.htm The Life and Death of Captain Preemo] The true story of John Belushi's Death
- [http://libsyn.com/media/tsoya/tsoya111905.mp3 Interview (MP3) with biographer Tanner Colby and widow Judith Belushi Pisano] on the public radio program The Sound of Young America regarding their book, "Belushi." Includes clips from Belushi's work on The National Lampoon Radio Hour.
- [http://www.belushibook.com Website] of the Belushi biography "Belushi," including outtakes from the book, an oral history.
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January 24
January 24 is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 341 days remaining (342 in leap years).
Events
- 41 - Roman Emperor Gaius Caesar (Caligula), known for his eccentricity and cruel despotism, was assassinated by his disgruntled Praetorian Guards.
- 1438 - Pope Eugenius IV was suspended by the Council of Basel.
- 1458 - Matthias I Corvinus becomes king of Hungary.
- 1624 - Alfonso Mendez, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa.
- 1679 - King Charles II of England disbands Parliament.
- 1742 - Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1848 - California gold rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento.
- 1888 - Jacob L. Wortman patents the typewriter ribbon.
- 1908 - Robert Baden-Powell begins the Boy Scout movement.
- 1916 - In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad, the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax constitutional.
- 1918 - A decree of the Council of People's Commissars, introducing the Gregorian calendar in Russia since February 1, issued
- 1922 - Christian K. Nelson patents the Eskimo Pie.
- 1924 - St. Petersburg, Russia is renamed Leningrad.
- 1927 - Young director Alfred Hitchcock released his first film, The Pleasure Garden, in England.
- 1936 - Albert Sarraut becomes Prime Minister of France
- 1943 - World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca.
- 1945 - Auschwitz, Concentration Camp in Poland is Liberated by Soviet Troops.
- 1952 - Vincent Massey sworn in as first Canada-born Governor-General of Canada.
- 1962 - Brian Epstein signs to manage The Beatles.
- 1966 - An Air India Boeing 707 jet crashes on Mont Blanc, on the border between France and Italy, killing 117
- 1972 - Shoichi Yokoi, a Japanese soldier, is discovered on Guam.
- 1982 - Super Bowl XVI: San Francisco 49ers defeat the Cincinnati Bengals, 26-21 in the first Super Bowl played north of the Mason-Dixon line
- 1984 - The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale.
- 1986 - Voyager 2 passes within 50,679 miles of Uranus.
- 1987 - In Lebanon, gunmen kidnap Alann Steen, Jesse Turner, Robert Polhill and Mitheleshwar Singh.
- 1989 - Serial killer Ted Bundy is executed in Florida's electric chair.
- 1995 - The prosecution delivers its opening statement in the O. J. Simpson murder trial.
- 1996 - Polish Premier Jozef Oleksy resigns amid charge he spied for Moscow.
- 2001 - The last two of the Texas 7 are taken into custody in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
- 2002 - Enron Congressional hearings begin.
- 2002 - Terrorist suspect John Walker Lindh's hearing begins.
- 2002 - The United States Department of Justice indicts Robert Nicholas Angleton for conspiring to murder his wife, Doris Angleton, along with his brother Roger.
- 2003 - The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.
Births
- 76 - Hadrian, Roman Emperor (d. 138)
- 1287 - Richard Aungerville, English bishop and writer (d. 1345)
- 1444 - Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1476)
- 1540 - Edmund Campion, English Jesuit (d. 1581)
- 1638 - Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier (d. 1706)
- 1670 - William Congreve, English playwright (d. 1729)
- 1674 - Thomas Tanner, English bishop and antiquarian (d. 1735)
- 1679 - Christian Wolff, German philosopher (d. 1754)
- 1705 - Farinelli, Italian castrato (d. 1782)
- 1712 - King Frederick II of Prussia (d. 1786)
- 1724 - Frances Brooke, English writer (d. 1789)
- 1732 - Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, French playwright (d. 1799)
- 1752 - Muzio Clementi, Italian composer (d. 1832)
- 1776 - E.T.A. Hoffmann, German writer, composer, and painter (d. 1822)
- 1862 - Edith Wharton, American writer (d. 1937)
- 1888 - Vicki Baum, Austrian writer (d. 1960)
- 1888 - Ernst Heinkel, German aircraft designer (d. 1958)
- 1895 - Eugen Roth, German writer (d. 1976)
- 1902 - E. A. Speiser, American Bible scholar (d. 1965)
- 1909 - Martin Lings, English Islamic scholar (d. 2005)
- 1913 - Norman Dello Joio, American composer
- 1915 - Robert Motherwell, American painter (d. 1991)
- 1916 - Jack Brickhouse, American sports broadcaster (d. 1998)
- 1917 - Ernest Borgnine, American actor
- 1918 - Oral Roberts, American evangelist
- 1925 - Maria Tallchief, American ballerina
- 1928 - Desmond Morris, British anthropologist and writer
- 1934 - Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish poet and dramatist (d. 1976)
- 1936 - Doug Kershaw, American musician
- 1939 - Ray Stevens, American musician
- 1941 - Neil Diamond, American singer
- 1941 - Aaron Neville, American singer
- 1943 - Sharon Tate, American actress (d. 1969)
- 1944 - Klaus Nomi, German singer (d. 1983)
- 1946 - Michael Ontkean, Canadian actor
- 1947 - Warren Zevon, American musician and songwriter (d. 2003)
- 1949 - John Belushi, American actor (d. 1982)
- 1951 - Yakov Smirnoff, Russian comedian
- 1958 - Jools Holland, British musician
- 1959 - Nastassja Kinski, German-born actress
- 1959 - Vic Reeves, English comedian
- 1963 - Arnold Vanderlyde, Dutch boxer
- 1968 - Mary Lou Retton, American gymnast
- 1970 - Matthew Lillard, American actor
- 1979 - Tatyana Ali, American actress
- 1986 - Mischa Barton, English-born actress
- 1986 - Ricky Ullman, American actor
Deaths
- 41 - Caligula, Emperor of Rome (assassinated) (b. 12)
- 772 - Pope Stephen IV (b. 720)
- 1125 - King David IV of Georgia (b. 1073)
- 1366 - King Alfonso IV of Aragon (b. 1299)
- 1376 - Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, English military leader
- 1473 - Conrad Paumann, German composer
- 1595 - Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria (b. 1529)
- 1626 - Samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer (b. 1580)
- 1639 - Georg Jenatsch, Swiss politician (b. 1596)
- 1666 - Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer (b. 1588)
- 1709 - George Rooke, English admiral (b. 1650)
- 1856 - Rabbi Yechezkel of Kuzmir, Polish Hasidic leader (b. 1775)
- 1877 - Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (b. 1796)
- 1882 - Levi Boone, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1808)
- 1883 - Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (b. 1812)
- 1920 - Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1884)
- 1924 - Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1894)
- 1932 - Sir Alfred Yarrow, English shipbuilder (b. 1842)
- 1939 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (b. 1867)
- 1943 - John Burns, English politician (b. 1858)
- 1955 - Ira Hayes, American World War II hero (b. 1923)
- 1960 - Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (b. 1886)
- 1961 - Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American swimmer and inventor (b. 1884)
- 1965 - Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1874)
- 1971 - Bill W., American co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1895)
- 1973 - J. Carrol Naish, American actor (b. 1897)
- 1975 - Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (b. 1902)
- 1983 - George Cukor, American film director (b. 1899)
- 1986 - L. Ron Hubbard, American writer and founder of Scientology (b. 1911)
- 1986 - Flo Hyman, American volleyball player (b. 1954)
- 1986 - Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer (b. 1921)
- 1986 - Vincente Minnelli, American film director (b. 1903)
- 1989 - Ted Bundy, American serial killer (executed) (b. 1946)
- 1990 - Madge Bellamy, American actress (b. 1899)
- 1991 - John M. Kelly, Irish politician and academic (b. 1931)
- 1993 - Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1908)
- 1998 - Walter D. Edmonds, American author (b. 1903)
- 2003 - Gianni Agnelli, Italian auto executive (b. 1921)
- 2004 - Leônidas da Silva, Brazilian footballer (b. 1913)
- 2005 - June Bronhill, Australian singer (b. 1929)
- 2005 - Vladimir Savchenko, Ukrainian writer (b. 1933)
- 2005 - Chalkie White, English rugby coach (b. 1929)
Holidays and observances
- Roman Empire - first day of the Sementivae in honor of Ceres and Terra
- Roman Catholic Church - Feasts of St. Francis de Sales and Our Lady of Peace
External links
- [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/24 BBC: On This Day]
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January 23 - January 25 - December 24 - February 24 — listing of all days
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March 5
March 5 is the 64th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (65th in leap years). There are 301 days remaining.
Events
- 1046 - Naser Khosrow begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he would later describe in his book Safarnameh.
- 1689 - Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham is named Secretary of State for the Northern Department.
- 1766 - Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
- 1770 - Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are killed by British troops in an event that would help start the American [[Revolutionary War]] five years later.
- [[1784 - Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney is named President of the Board of Trade.
- 1793 - French troops are defeated by Austrian forces and Liège is recaptured.
- 1821 - James Monroe is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States.
- 1824 - First Burmese War: The British officially declares war on Burma.
- 1836 - Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver (.34-caliber).
- 1842 - Over 500 Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas, briefly occupy San Antonio and then head back to the Rio Grande.
- 1848 - Louis Antoine Garnier-Pages is named French minister of Finance.
- 1849 - Zachary Taylor is inaugurated as the 12th President of the United States.
- 1860 - Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referenda to join Kingdom of Sardinia.
- 1861 - Montgomery Blair is named 23rd Postmaster General of the United States by Abraham Lincoln
- 1868 - A court of impeachment is organized in the United States Senate to hear charges against President Andrew Johnson.
- 1868 - Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito premieres at La Scala.
- 1872 - George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
- 1877 - Rutherford B. Hayes is publicly inaugurated as the 19th President of the United States (he was privately inaugurated on March 3).
- 1894 - Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery becomes First Lord of the Treasury.
- 1904 - Nikola Tesla, in Electrical World and Engineer, describes the process of ball lightning formation.
- 1905 - Russian troops begin to retreat from Mukden, Manchuria after losing 100,000 troops in three days.
- 1907 - The second Duma opens in St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators have to be dispersed by Russian troops.
- 1912 - Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
- 1915 - World War I: LZ 33, a zeppelin, is damaged by enemy fire and stranded south of Ostend.
- 1916 - Spanish football club Real Club Deportivo Mallorca founded.
- 1917 - Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States.
- 1918 - Bolshevist Russia moves the national capital from Petrograd to Moscow.
- 1924 - Shefqet Verlaci becomes Prime Minister of Albania.
- 1929 - LanChile airline begins operations.
- 1931 - Daniel Salamanca Urey is named President of Bolivia.
- 1933 - Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all United States banks and freezing all financial transactions.
- 1933 - In Germany, the Nazis win 44 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections.
- 1936 - First flight of fighter airplane Spitfire Type 300.
- 1940 - Members of Soviet politbiuro sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POW, known also as Katyn massacre.
- 1943 - First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in Britain.
- 1946 - Winston Churchill uses the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.
- 1948 - US rocket flies a record 4800 KPH to 126KM height.
- 1949 - The Jharkhand Party is founded in India.
- 1953 - Both Josef Stalin and Sergei Prokofiev die in Soviet Union.
- 1955 - President of Lithuania, Antanas Merkys dies, after having been imprisoned and deported to the Soviet Union.
- 1956 - Ernie Terrell becomes the WBA world heavyweight champion, beating Eddie Machen.
- 1956 - "King Kong" first televised.
- 1958 - Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is established.
- 1958 - Explorer 2 spacecraft launches, fails to reach Earth orbit.
- 1960 - Elvis Presley is discharged from a 2-year hitch in the United States Army.
- 1963 - Country singer Patsy Cline dies in a plane crash.
- 1964 - Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr announces a baseball team is moving there.
- 1964 - Ceylon declares emergency crisis due to unrest.
- 1965 - First performance of Walter Piston's Eighth Symphony.
- 1966 - A BOAC Boeing 707 jet crashes on Mount Fuji, Japan killing 124
- 1966 - In Luxembourg, Udo Jürgens wins the eleventh Eurovision Song Contest for Austria.
- 1966 - Bob Seagren vaults 5.19m, an indoor world record.
- 1968 - US launches Solar Explorer B, aka Explorer 37 from Wallops Island to study the Sun.
- 1970 - A nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
- 1970 - Dubnium atoms first detected conclusively.
- 1971 - First live performance of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven."
- 1973 - Donald DeFreeze, future Symbionese Liberation Army leader, escapes from Vacaville Prison.
- 1974 - Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdrew from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
- 1974 - "Candide", by Leonard Bernstein, opens at Broadway Theatre in NYC for 740 performances.
- 1976 - British pound falls below $2 US for the first time.
- 1978 - Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg AFB in California.
- 1979 - Detection equipment picks up a gamma ray burst originating from the Large Magellanic Cloud, leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
- 1979 - Voyager 1's closest approach to Jupiter, 172000 miles.
- 1980 - Earth satellites record gamma rays from remnants of supernova N-49.
- 1981 - Cannibal Alferd Packer pardoned posthumously.
- 1982 - SNL star John Belushi dies of a drug overdose in his hotel room.
- 1982 - Venera 14, a Soviet satellite arrives at the planet Venus.
- 1983 - Bob Hawke becomes Australian prime minister after defeating Malcolm Fraser in Australian elections.
- 1985 - The body of undercover DEA agent Enrique Camarena is found.
- 1988 - Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands restored and revised.
- 1991 - Iraq releases all Gulf War prisoners
- 1993 - Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson is banned from international competition for life after testing positive for banned substances for the second time.
- 1998 - NASA announces that the Clementine probe orbiting the Moon has found enough water to support a human colony.
- 1998 - NASA announces the choice of United States Air Force Lt. Col. Eileen Collins as the first woman commander of a space shuttle mission.
- 1999 - Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut.
- 2001 - In Mecca, 35 Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death during the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
- 2002 - MTV begins airing The Osbournes.
- 2003 - University of Manchester and UMIST announce agreement to merge operations.
- 2003 - Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks provokes controversy in the U.S. by stating that the band was "ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas."
- 2003 - Nature withdraws several papers as a result of the Jan Hendrik Schön scandal.
Births
- 1133 - King Henry II of England (d. 1189)
- 1324 - King David II of Scotland (d. 1371)
- 1512 - Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer (d. 1594)
- 1563 - John Coke, English politician (d. 1644)
- 1575 - William Oughtred, English mathematician (d. 1660)
- 1585 - John George I, Elector of Saxony (d. 1656)
- 1658 - Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (d. 1730)
- 1693 - Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (d. 1754)
- 1696 - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (d. 1770)
- 1703 (N.S.) - Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (d. 1768)
- 1748 - Jonas C. Dryander, Swedish botanist (d. 1810)
- 1748 - William Shield, English musician (d. 1829)
- 1750 - Jean-Baptiste Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison, French classical scholar (d. 1805)
- 1814 - Wilhelm von Giesebrecht, German historian (d. 1889)
- 1815 - John Wentworth, American politician (d. 1888)
- 1817 - Austen Henry Layard, English archaeologist (d. 1894)
- 1836 - Charles Goodnight, American cattle rancher (d. 1929)
- 1853 - Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator (d. 1911)
- 1867 - Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Premier of Quebec (d. 1952)
- 1869 - Michael von Faulhaber, German cardinal and archbishop (d. 1952)
- 1870 - Frank Norris, American writer (d. 1902)
- 1871 - Rosa Luxemburg, German revolutionary (d. 1919)
- 1874 - Henry Travers, British actor (d. 1965)
- 1879 - Sir William Beveridge, British economist (d. 1963)
- 1886 - Dong Biwu, founder of the Communist Party of China (d. 1975)
- 1887 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (d. 1959
- [[1898]] - [[Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1976)
- 1898 - Soong May-ling, Chinese wife of Chiang Kai-Shek (d. 2003)
- 1904 - Karl Rahner, German theologian (d. 1984)
- 1908 - Sir Rex Harrison, English actor (d. 1990)
- 1910 - Józef Marcinkiewicz, Polish mathematician (d. 1940)
- 1915 - Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician (d. 2002)
- 1918 - James Tobin, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
- 1920 - Virginia Christine, American actress (d. 1996)
- 1921 - Elmer Valo, baseball player (d. 1998)
- 1922 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian writer and film director (d. 1975)
- 1923 - David Nathan, Welsh journalist (d. 1966)
- 1923 - Laurence Tisch, American investor
- 1927 - Jack Cassidy, American actor (d. 1976)
- 1934 - Daniel Kahneman, Iraeli economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1934 - James B. Sikking, American actor
- 1936 - Canaan Banana, first President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003)
- 1936 - Dean Stockwell, American actor
- 1937 - Olusegun Obasanjo, leader of Nigeria
- 1938 - Fred Williamson, American football player and actor
- 1939 - Peter Woodcock, Canadian serial killer
- 1939 - Pierre Wynants, Belgian chef
- 1939 - Samantha Eggar, British actress
- 1942 - Felipe González Márquez, Prime Minister of Spain
- 1943 - Billy Backus, American boxer
- 1947 - Clodagh Rodgers, Irish singer
- 1948 - Eddy Grant, Guyana-born singer
- 1951 - Elaine Paige, English singer and actress
- 1954 - Marsha Warfield, American actress, comedienne
- 1955 - Penn Jillette, American magician and comedian
- 1957 - Mark E. Smith, Vocalist with The Fall
- 1958 - Andy Gibb, English singer (d. 1988)
- 1966 - Michael Irvin, American football player
- 1966 - Tim Crutchfield,Controversial politician
- 1969 - MC Solaar, French hiphop artist
- 1970 - John Frusciante, American musician (The Red Hot Chili Peppers)
- 1974 - Jens Jeremies, German footballer
- 1974 - Eva Mendes, American actress
- 1975 - Jolene Blalock, American actress
- 1975 - Niki Taylor, American model
- 1976 - Sarunas Jasikevicius, Lithuanian basketball player
- 1976 - Paul Konerko, baseball player
- 1977 - Bryan Berard, American hockey player
- 1977 - Wally Szczerbiak, American basketball player
- 1989 - Jake Lloyd, American actor
Deaths
- 1534 - Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter (b. 1489)
- 1539 - Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese governor in India (b. 1487)
- 1592 - Michael Coxcie, Flemish painter (b. 1499)
- 1605 - Pope Clement VIII (b. 1536)
- 1611 - Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1533)
- 1622 - Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1569)
- 1695 - Henry Wharton, English writer (b. 1664)
- 1726 - Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, English politician
- 1778 - Thomas Augustine Arne, English composer (b. 1710)
- 1815 - Franz Mesmer, Austrian developer of hypnotism (b. 1734)
- 1827 - Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician (b. 1749)
- 1827 - Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (b. 1745)
- 1829 - John Adams, last surviving HMS Bounty mutineer (b. 1766)
- 1849 - David Scott, Scottish painter (b. 1806)
- 1876 - Marie d'Agoult, German-born writer (b. 1805)
- 1893 - Hippolyte Taine, French historian (b. 1828
- 1895 - Henry Rawlinson, British soldier (b. 1810)
- 1895 - Nikolai Leskov, Russian writer (b. 1831)
- 1903 - George Francis Robert Henderson, British soldier (b. 1854)
- 1907 - Friedrich Blass, German classical scholar (b. 1843)
- 1926 - Clément Ader, French aviation pioneer (b. 1841)
- 1927 - Franz Mertens, German mathematician (b. 1840)
- 1940 - Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (b. 1868)
- 1944 - Max Jacob, French poet and writer (b. 1876)
- 1947 - Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (b. 1883)
- 1953 - Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer, (b. 1891)
- 1953 - Joseph Stalin, Georgian leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1879)
- 1953 - Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter (b. 1897)
- 1963 - Patsy Cline, American singer (b. 1932)
- 1965 - Chen Cheng, Chinese politician (b. 1897)
- 1965 - Pepper Martin, baseball player (b. 1904)
- 1966 - Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (b. 1889)
- 1967 - Georges Vanier, Governor General of Canada (b. 1888)
- 1974 - Sol Hurok, Russian-born impresario (b. 1888)
- 1980 - Jay Silverheels, Canadian actor (b. 1912)
- 1980 - Winifred Wagner, German opera producer (b. 1897)
- 1981 - Yip Harburg, American lyricist (b. 1896)
- 1982 - John Belushi, American actor (b. 1949)
- 1984 - Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (b. 1915)
- 1984 - William Powell, American actor (b. 1892)
- 1988 - Alberto Olmedo, Argentine comedian (b. 1933)
- 1996 - Whit Bissell, American actor (b. 1909)
- 1997 - Samm Sinclair Baker, American diet author (b. 1909)
- 1999 - Richard Kiley, American actor (b. 1922)
- 2000 - Lolo Ferrari, French actress (b. 1970)
- 2004 - Walt Gorney, American actor (b. 1912)
Holidays and observances
- St Piran's Day - Cornwall's national day
- Feast of St. Kieran, patron of the Diocese of Ossory, in Irish calendar
- Approximate beginning of month of jīngzhé in Chinese calendar
External links
- [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/5 BBC: On This Day]
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1982
1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar.
Events
January
- January 6 - William Bonin is convicted of being the "freeway killer".
- January 8 - AT&T agrees to divest itself into twenty-two subdivisions.
- January 10 - The lowest ever UK temperature of -27.2°C is recorded at Braemar, in Aberdeenshire. This equals the record set in the same place in 1895.
- January 11 - Mark Thatcher, son of the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, disappears in the Sahara during Paris-Dakar rally. He is rescued January 14.
- January 11 to January 17 - A brutal cold snap sends temperatures to all-time record lows in dozens of cities throughout the Midwestern United States.
- January 13 - Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90 crashes into Washington, DC's 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78. Half an hour later, a Washington Metro train derails, killing three. It is the system's first fatal accident.
- January 17 - Cold Sunday sweeps over northern United States.
- January 26 - Mauno Koivisto elected the President of Finland.
- January 28 - James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces after 42 days of captivity under the Red Brigades.
February
- February 1 - Senegal and Gambia form a loose confederation.
- February 2 - Hama Massacre begins in Syria.
- February 3 - Syrian president Hafez al-Assad orders army to purge the city of Harran of the Muslim Brotherhood.
- February 5 - Laker Airways collapses, leaving 6,000 passengers stranded and with debts of £270 million.
- February 15 - The oil platform Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing 84 rig workers.
- February 19 - The DeLorean Car factory in Belfast is put into receivership.
- February 24 - Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers scores his 77th goal of the National Hockey League season, breaking the previous record of 76. He would go on to score 92 goals that season, which remains the record.
March
- March 1 - Jimmy Page's soundtrack album Death Wish II is released by Swan Song Records
- March 10 - The United States places an embargo on Libyan oil imports, alleging Libyan support of terrorist groups.
- March 10 - Syzygy: all 9 planets align on the same side of the Sun.
- March 18 - An Argentinean scrap metal dealer raises the Argentinean flag in South Georgia
- March 19 - Falklands War approaches: Argentines land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war.
- March 26 - A ground breaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, DC
- March 29 - Royal Assent in London to the Canada Act 1982 sets the stage for the repatriation of the Canadian Constitution (see April 17 below).
- March 30 - Pakistan in Karachi Adeel Mansoor is born.
April
- April 2 - Falklands War begins: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.
- April 4 - Falklands War: the British Falkland Islands government surrenders, placing the islands in Argentinean control
- April 6 - A blizzard unprecedented in size for April dumps 1-2 feet of snow on the northeastern U.S., closing schools and businesses, snarling traffic, and canceling several major league baseball games.
- April 17 - By Proclamation of the Queen of Canada on Parliament Hill, Canada repatriates its constitution, granting full political independence from the United Kingdom; included is the country's first entrenched bill of rights, called the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
- April 23 - Dennis Wardlow, Mayor of Key West, Florida, declares the independent Conch Republic for a day.
- April 25 - Israel completes withdrawing from the Sinai peninsula per the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty.
May
- May 1 - Falklands War: A Royal Air Force Vulcan bomber takes off from Ascension Island and bombs Stanley Airport.
- May 2 - Falklands War: Nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano.
- The Weather Channel airs on cable television for the first time.
- May 5 - Unabomber bomb explodes in the computer science department at Vanderbilt University; secretary Janet Smith is injured.
- May 12 - Spanish priest Juan Hernandes tries to stab Pope John Paul II with a bayonet during the latter's pilgrimage to the Fatima shrine.
- May 21 - Falklands War: Royal Marines and paratroopers from the British Task Force land at San Carlos Bay on the Falkland Islands and raise the Union Jack.
- May 23 - Falklands War - HMS Antelope of the Royal Navy explodes.
- May 24 - Iranian troops retake Khorramshahr.
- May 26 - Kielder Water, artificial lake in Northumbria, opened.
- May 28 - British troops reach Darwin in the Falkland Islands
- May 29 - Falklands War: In the Battle of Goose Green, British Paratroopers defeat a larger force of Argentine troops in the first land battle of the war.
- May 30 - Spain becomes the 16th member of NATO and the first nation to enter the alliance since West Germany's admission in 1955.
- May 31 - Falklands War: Battle of Stanley.
June
- June 6 - 1982 Lebanon War begins: Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon in their "Operation Peace for the Galilee," eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.
- June 6 - United Nations Security Council votes to demand that Israel withdraw its troops from Lebanon
- June 8 - President Reagan became the first American chief executive to address a joint session of the British Parliament.
- June 12 - 750,000 people rally against nuclear weapons in New York City's Central Park. Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, and Linda Ronstadt are in attendance
- June 13 - In Alberta, Canada 15 members of the Black Leopards Karate Club demolish a house with bare hands and feet with owner's consent
- June 13 - Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.
- June 14 - Falklands War ends: British forces reach the outskirts of Stanley after "yomping" across East Falkland from San Carlos Bay. They arrive to find the Argentine forces flying white flags of surrender. A formal surrender is agreed that day.
- June 19 - The body of "God's Banker", Roberto Calvi, chairman of Banco Ambrosiano is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.
- June 22 - A British Airways Boeing 747 suffered a temporary four-engine flameout and damage to the exterior of the plane after flying through the otherwise undetected ash plume from Indonesia's Galunggung.
July-August
- July 1 - The Reverend Sun Myung Moon marries 4,150 of his followers at New York City's Madison Square Garden.
- July 2 - Larry Walters uses 45 helium balloons and a lawn chair to propel himself to 16,000 feet and flies from San Pedro, California to Long Beach.
- July 4 - Four Iranian diplomats have been kidnapped upon Israel invasion of Lebanon.
- July 9 - A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana killing all 146 on board and eight on the ground
- July 9 - An intruder Michael Fagan visits the Queen in her bedroom for a chat
- July 11 - Italy beat West Germany 3-1 to win Football World Cup 1982 in Spain
- July 16 - The Reverend Sun Myung Moon is sentenced to 18 months in prison and fined $25,000 for tax fraud and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
- July 20 - The Provisional IRA detonates two bombs in central London, killing eight soldiers, wounding 47 people, and leading to the deaths of 7 horses.
- July 21- HMS Hermes, the Royal Navy flagship during the Falklands War, returns home to Portsmouth to a hero's welcome.
- July 23 - The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-86.
- August 4 - United Nations Security Council votes to censure Israel because its troops are still in Lebanon
- August 20 - Lebanese Civil War: A multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the PLO withdrawal from Lebanon. French troops arrive August 21, US marines August 25
September
- September 5 - Iowa paperboy Johnny Gosch kidnapped.
- September 14 - Bomb kills President-elect of Lebanon, Bashir Gemayel. His brother is elected president on September 23
- September 15 - Princess Grace of Monaco dies from injuries sustained in a car crash the previous day
- September 18 - Lebanese Christian Militia kill hundreds in the Palestinians in Sabra and Chatila refugee camps in West Beirut
- September 25 - 400,000 march in Israel demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Menachem Begin
- September 26 - Thermals take Australian parachutist Rich Collins up to 2800 meters during a jump; he almost blacks out due to lack of oxygen. He releases his main parachute to fall to lower altitude and lands by his reserve parachute
- September 29 to October 1 - The Tylenol scare is sparked after seven people in the Chicago, Illinois area die after ingesting capsules laced with potassium cyanide
October
- October 1 - Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a Constructive Vote of No Confidence.
- October 8 - Poland bans Solidarity
- October 11 - The Mary Rose, flagship of Henry VIII of England that sank in 1545 is raised
- October 19 - John De Lorean is arrested for selling cocaine for undercover FBI agents. He was later found "not guilty", due to entrapment.
- October 28 - The Socialist Party win the election in Spain - Felipe González is elected Prime Minister
November
- November 2 - The fourth terrestrial television channel launched in the United Kingdom known as Channel 4 with the first programme broadcasted was the game show Countdown and is still in production. S4C, the Welsh equlvalent of Channel 4 launched the previous day
- November 3 - A Gasoline tanker explodes in the Salang Tunnel in Afghanistan, killing 2,000+ people.
- November 7 - The first public demonstration of the Thames Barrier
- November 12 - In the Soviet Union, former KGB head Yuri Andropov is selected to become the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding the late Leonid I. Brezhnev.
- November 13 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.
- November 14 - The leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, Lech Wałęsa, is released from 11 months of internment near the Soviet border
- November 20 - Completing a wacky 57-yard kickoff return that includes five laterals, Kevin Moen runs through Stanford band members who had prematurely come onto the field. His touchdown stands and California wins 25-20.
- November 28 - Representatives from 88 countries gather in Geneva to discuss world trade and ways to work toward aspects of free trade
- November 29 - Soviet invasion of Afghanistan: The United Nations General Assembly passes United Nations Resolution 37/37, stating that the Soviet Union forces should withdraw from Afghanistan.
December
- December 2 - At the University of Utah, 61-year-old retired dentist Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart (he lived for 112 days with the device)
- December 3 - A final soil sample is taken from the site of Times Beach, Missouri. It was found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin.
- December 4 - The People's Republic of China adopts its current constitution.
- December 7 - First US execution by lethal injection is carried out in Texas.
- December 12 - Women's peace protest at Greenham Common - 30,000 women hold hands and form a human chain around the 14.5 km (9 mi) perimeter fence
- December 23 - The Environmental Protection Agency recommends the evacuation of Times Beach, Missouri due to dangerous levels of dioxin contamination.
- December 26 - Time Magazine's Man of the Year was for the first time given to a non-human, a computer.
Unknown dates
- The Vietnam Memorial is built in Washington D.C.
- A brief but severe recession begins in the United States.
- Seattle officially dubbed the Emerald City after a contest held to choose a new city slogan.
- George Stigler wins The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
- Eric Dammann / Future in Our Hands, Anwar Fazal / Consumer Interpol, Petra Kelly, Participatory Institute for Development Alternatives (PIDA) and Sir George Trevelyan / Wrekin Trust win the Right Livelihood Award.
Births
January-May
- January 1 - David Nalbandian, Argentine tennis player
- January 1 - Anna Williams, model
- January 2 - Cyrus Farivar, American journalist
- January 5 - Janica Kostelic, Croatian skier
- January 12 - Dontrelle Willis, American baseball player
- January 13 - Guillermo Coria, Argentine tennis player
- January 15 - Benjamin Agosto, American skater
- January 17 - Dwyane Wade, American basketball player
- January 19 - Jodie Sweetin, American actress
- February 9 - Ami Suzuki, Japanese singer
- February 10 - Mon Redee Sut Txi, a Malaysian athlete
- February 10 - Justin Gatlin, American athlete
- February 17 - Adriano Leite Ribeiro, Brazilian footballer (soccer player)
- February 22 - Jenna Haze, American actress
- February 28 - Andres Nuiamäe, Estonian soldier (d. 2004)
- March 2 - Ben Roethlisberger, American football player
- March 3 - Jessica Biel, American actress
- March 11 - Thora Birch, American actress
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